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Bike Week Takes Over

The welcome flood of Bike Week 2011 has just washed over Daytona Beach, its 70th year, and our trusty correspondent Friggs was on the scene once again. While still cool some days, he reported midweek that “The weather is much, much nicer this week than ...

Bike Week Roars

Leather riding gear was far more prevalent last week at Daytona Bike Week than the skin that is usually on prominent display. Cold weather that has inundated the Northeast in snow also sent its icy fingers to Florida, putting a damper on the ...

Winners!

Drivers at the Fresh From Florida 200 got a swift kick in the bumper as the Rum Bum Race Team exploded onto the scene and sped away with victory on Friday at Daytona. The event was the inaugural race of the GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge and ...

Music To My Gears

It’s THAT time of year again when the freeze of winter starts to give way and the first signs of spring start to appear. The flowers start to bloom and the birds begin their long flight North for the summer. Love is in the air and about 300,000 roaring ...

And The Winner Is...

Daytona Bike Week 2009 is set to kick off February 28 through March 8. Now you usually think of motorcycles when you think of bike week, but these days you have to think in terms of contests.

There are best buns contests. 14 of them. This is where girls ...

Rumbum Has Horsepower at 24 Hours of Daytona

Grand-Am KONI Sports Car Challenge competitors will begin their quest for the 2009 Grand Sport (GS) and Street Tuner (ST) championships beginning this week at Daytona International Speedway.

The 2009 24 Hours of Daytona will no doubt be an exciting one. ...

Matt Plumb on the Fast Track

When Matt Plumb straps in behind the wheel of a high performance race car, he makes things happen. Fast.

2008 was a big year for Matt. He led in the very first race he started as a Daytona Prototype driver in the super competitive, star studded Rolex 24 ...